In a press release on November 1st, Pfizer, one of the world’s biggest pharma companies, announced it was scrapping its high-profile experimental cholesterol drug bococizumab. Citing studies showing adverse reactions and the chemical’s ineffectiveness, the drug maker concluded that the candidate injection product was “not likely to provide value to patients, physicians, or shareholders.” In plain English, this means it doesn’t work and that investors couldn’t make money from it. With global sales of statins and other so-called ‘lipid regulators’ having now fallen more than 32% over the past 5 years, the announcement provides further evidence that the pharma industry’s multibillion dollar ‘cholesterol bubble’ has burst.

Only a few years ago, everything in the ‘cholesterol garden’ seemed rosy for the Pharma Cartel. By 2011, global sales of statins and other lipid-regulating drugs had reached a dizzying new high of 39.1 billion dollars a year. At that time, with statins functioning as the pharma industry’s “goldmine”, Pfizer’s Lipitor was the world’s top-selling drug with annual sales of over 12 billion dollars. But in the years that followed, things quickly began to change.

Lawsuits were filed against Pfizer after it was found that Lipitor may increase the risk of developing diabetes, severe muscle pain, and other serious health problems. AstraZeneca, the manufacturers of Crestor, another statin, also had lawsuits filed against it by patients who had suffered side effects. From the global highpoint in 2011, sales of statins and other lipid-regulators subsequently fell every single year. By 2015 they had plummeted to 26.5 billion dollars, a fall of over 32%. With drug patents expiring and a growing worldwide awareness of the dangers of statins, this downward trend seems set to continue.

Source: IMS Health statistics

Statins are NOT the answer to heart disease

Sales of statins and other ‘lipid regulating’ drugs are built on a deeply cynical combination of fear and lies – the fear that cholesterol supposedly causes heart attacks, and the lie that statins are the answer. Far from being an undesirable substance, however, the fact is that cholesterol is actually essential to our bodies. A structural constituent of the walls of billions of cells, it is the precursor of important biological molecules such as vitamin D and the hormones estrogen and testosterone.

Moreover, so long as blood vessel walls are structurally intact, there is no scientific evidence that cholesterol, even at moderately elevated levels, damages them or causes atherosclerotic plaques and heart attacks. To have a damaging effect on otherwise intact blood vessel walls in test animals, cholesterol must be artificially increased to levels essentially never observed in humans.

Significantly, therefore, with skepticism about the cholesterol theory of heart disease growing even among orthodox cardiologists, researchers were said to have been “stunned” earlier this year to learn that evacetrapib, a new cholesterol-lowering drug produced by Eli Lilly, did not reduce the risk of either heart attacks, strokes, or death.

As the ongoing cholesterol drug failures therefore remind us, in order to successfully control heart disease it is essential that we correctly identify its root cause.

The end of heart disease is now possible

In April 2015, scientists at the Dr. Rath Research Institute in California published a groundbreaking study in the American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease proving that heart disease is an early form of the vitamin C deficiency disease scurvy. Building on a discovery made by Dr. Rath in the early 1990s, the publication of this research dealt a major blow to the cholesterol theory of heart disease and the Pharma Cartel’s sales of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

As Dr. Rath’s work has shown, coronary heart disease occurs for precisely the same reason that clinical (early) scurvy does – a deficiency of vitamin C in the cells composing the artery wall. Unlike animals, humans develop heart disease because their bodies cannot produce vitamin C. While the average human diet provides enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, this is not enough to guarantee stable artery walls. As a consequence of the insufficient supply of vitamin C, millions of tiny cracks and lesions develop in the artery walls. Subsequently, cholesterol, lipoproteins, and other risk factors enter to repair this damage.

Of all these risk factors, by far the most important is a molecule known as Lipoprotein(a). Primarily found in humans and sub-human primates, Lipoprotein(a) functions as a repair molecule compensating for the structural impairment of the vascular wall. In general, animals that produce vitamin C in their bodies do not produce Lipoprotein(a). In human beings, in the case of a chronic deficiency of vitamin C, the arterial repair process becomes continuous. Over the course of many years, atherosclerotic deposits develop. This eventually leads to the occurrence of heart attacks and strokes.

Almost a quarter of a century ago, Dr. Rath and two-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling issued their historic “Call for an International Effort to Abolish Heart Disease”. Today, it is becoming increasingly clear that the possibility of eliminating heart disease as the major cause of death and disability is closer than ever before. The more of us who commit ourselves to reaching this goal by sharing the facts as widely as possible, the sooner it will be achieved.

Paul Anthony Taylor

Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.